{"product_id":"art-shaw-82-days-on-okinawa-9780062907455","title":"82 Days on Okinawa","description":"\"A gritty, first-person account. ... One can hear Shaw’s voice as if he were sitting beside you.\" —Wall Street Journal An unforgettable soldier’s-eye view of the Pacific War’s bloodiest battle, by the first American officer ashore Okinawa.  On Easter Sunday,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nApril 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof the Japanese island of Okinawa. The men were there to launch the largest\n\u003cbr\u003e\namphib­ious assault on the Pacific Theater. War planners expected an 80 percent\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncasualty rate. The first American\n\u003cbr\u003e\nofficer ashore was then-Major Art Shaw (1920-2020), a unit commander in the U.S. Army’s\n\u003cbr\u003e\n361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDeadeyes. For the next three months, Shaw and his men served near the front\n\u003cbr\u003e\nlines of the Pacific’s costliest battle, their artillery proving decisive\n\u003cbr\u003e\nagainst a phantom enemy who had entrenched itself in the rugged, craggy island.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOver eighty-two days, the Allies fought the Japanese army in a\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncampaign that would claim more than 150,000 human lives. When the final\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncalculations were made, the Deadeyes were estimated to have killed 37,763 of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe enemy. The 361st Field Artillery Battalion had played a crucial role in the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nvictory. The campaign would be the last major battle of World War II and a key\n\u003cbr\u003e\npivot point leading to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJapanese surrender in August, two months after the siege’s end.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFilled with\n\u003cbr\u003e\nextraordinary details, Shaw’s gripping account gives lasting testimony to the\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncourage and bravery displayed by so many on the hills of Okinawa.","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53315544547670,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53779762217302,"sku":"9780062907455-V","price":4.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/art-shaw-82-days-on-okinawa-9780062907455","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}